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Category Archives: Emanations from Penumbras
ACTION ITEM! URGENT MONDAY – US Senate votes to DEFUND Planned Parenthood – CALL SENATORS
Early Monday evening, the U.S. Senate will vote on S. 1881, to prohibit taxpayer funding of big biz abortion Planned Parenthood. From Life News: While most members of the Senate are strongly pro-life and support yanking taxpayer funding from the … Read More
Liberals – unmasked
Remember… Planned Parenthood was initiated to get rid of undesirables. Everyone… take a moment to go to Crisis and read Fr. George Rutler’s new offering. HERE A sample… Christ cannot be psychoanalyzed because he is perfect. It would be like seeking … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged abortion, Cecile Richards, Fr. George Rutler, Planned Parenthood
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19 Comments
Yet another Planned Parenthood baby body parts video
Never has the label “Big Business Abortion” been more appropriate for Planned Parenthood. HERE Another video is out, showing a PP exec negotiating the price of body parts of babies. Planned Parenthood receives million of YOUR tax dollars. A new … Read More
One White House reaction to Laudato si’
I had posted a link to 11 things that you won’t see reported in the MSM about the new encyclical Laudato si‘. Now we have a video clip of White House spokesman Josh Ernest saying that he hadn’t seen the pro-life … Read More
Wisconsin Senate passes bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks.
I just watched the video stream of The Extraordinary Ordinary, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, offering the opening prayer of the Wisconsin Senate on a day when the Senate voted to ban abortion after 20 weeks. The prayer … Read More
ASK FATHER: I’m haunted. Was I not really absolved? Am I still excommunicated?
Fathers and seminarians, pay attention! From a reader… The Pope is sending out special priests who can absolve abortion. Does this mean that priests are giving absolution for something they cannot? Is the absolution then invalid? What does that mean for reception of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Emanations from Penumbras, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries
Tagged abortion, absolution, censure, excommunication, Missionaries of Mercy
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13 Comments
Nancy “the Theologian” Pelosi… words fail!
Nancy “the Theologian” Pelosi… words fail! From LifeSite: Nancy Pelosi: Gay ‘marriage’ is ‘consistent’ with Catholic teaching WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) — House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, says that same-sex “marriage” is perfectly “consistent” with Catholic … Read More
A dose of reality from Milwaukee’s Sheriff
I really like this Wisconsin sheriff. From LifeSite: Black Sheriff Says if Black Lives Mattered They’d Protest at Abortion Clinics CNN’s Poppy Harlow interviewed Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke about the recent protests that some in the Black Community have sparked … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, The Drill
Tagged abortion, Milwaukee, Sheriff David Clarke
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8 Comments
ACTION ITEM! Support Our Lady of Hope Clinic!
I have an ACTION ITEM for you good readers. You have been generous to causes I have mentioned in the past. Sometimes people have a hard time finding causes to support. This is one of them that I admire. I have … Read More
ACTION ITEM! POLL ALERT! Wisconsin Judge strikes down law requiring abortion docs to have hospital privileges
At the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel there is a poll about a recent decision of a federal judge (an Obama appointee, probably raised Catholic HERE) to strike down a law requiring that doctors performing abortions (aka infanticide) also have admitting privileges … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, POLLS
Tagged abortion, poll, right to life, Wisconsin
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26 Comments
Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
